On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Bienlein <[email protected]> wrote: > There is the nice old Smalltalk-80 inject:into: method in the Collection > class:
> A little more general ;-). The Scala guys have also cloned it where it is > called foldLeft. Oh, but D has `reduce`, for years now. It was maybe one of the very first range algorithms to be put into Phobos, with map and filter. So we have generality already :-) What bearophile wanted was, on the contrary, to have a specialized-for-summing function, if only to make the intended behavior more clear.
